Personal Narrative: My First Semester In College

My first semester of college has been very “challenging”. The goals I put out for myself have not been easy to achieve. There are specifically three topics that have been the most influential in my first semester at FSW. First, time management, this has been a huge topic I’m continuously working on to achieve my goals. Secondly, good organization, learning how to be organized is a huge part of my successes. Last but not least, financial awareness, which has been difficult to stick to. Learning about these three things during my SLS class experience has had a positive impact in my life. Learning how to manage my time has been very difficult for me. I just came straight from high school, which is nothing like college. College requires me to be very strict with my time, specially since I work almost a full time. I work thirty four hours during the week and go to school full time. Managing my time is very critical since I don’t have much of it. For example, after coming home from work, all I would like to do is shower and go to sleep, but instead I have to study and do homework. Another thing is having a “social life”. It is very complicated when going to school and working. There’s not much time for parties, etc… For me, balancing all these things seemed impossible. I’ve been working very hard toward achieving my goal, …show more content…
Now, it is extremely important for me to do that. I have to balance work and school and everything else going on in my life. Everything has to be organized in order to achieve my goals. God, school and work are my priorities. I’ve always been the kind of person to say “just go with it”, but that has changed. Making a to-do list has been working for me so far. It helps me keep everything organized for the day. Also having a planner where I keep all my important due dates has helped me a lot. Organizing my life has made me a better